Updated teaching techniques improve CPR performance measures: A cluster randomized, controlled trial

Resuscitation

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 730-735

  Ettl, Florian ^b   Testori, Christoph ^b   Weiser, Christoph ^b   Fleischhackl, Sabine ^a   Mayer Stickler, Monika ^a   Herkner, Harald ^b   Schreiber, Wolfgang ^b   Fleischhackl, Roman ^a,b  

^a Austrian Red Cross Headquarters   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Course structure; CPR performance; First aid training; Self confidence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; FIRST AID; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; SAFETY; SKILL; SKILL RETENTION; STUDY DESIGN; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AUSTRIA; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEACHING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956095852     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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